Give me the right to fan that poor flame back,

And thine old beauty to its former glow.

Marg. Blackness! blackness! I grope! I grope! I grope!

Forgive me, Heaven, forgive me! There is no Heaven!

There is no God! The universe one cave,

Where I, a blinded bat do beat my wings

In wounded darkness. O my child, my child!

Some one must save thee!

Ar. I am the only answer to thy prayer,

If there’s a God, he speaks to thee through me,